Ash-chute



(No Model.)

F. W. STELLING & H. P. REETZ.

ASH GHUTEL.

Patented NW. 14, 1893.

I 177/2 27 furs: Frederik I4], stelling. HermannF', P eeiz By their Jifbrney Vvizr esses:

OM SB Me/ UNITE .STATES' ATENT rica.

ASH-CHUTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,583, dated November 14,1893.

/ Application filed May 19, 1893. Serial No. 474,820. (No model.)

I To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIK W. STELLING and HERMANN F. REETZ, citizens of the Uni ted States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Ash-Chutes, of which the following is a specification.

This'invention relates to improvements in ash-chutes, the object of the invention being primarily to provide an economical labor saving ash-chute especially adapted for use in buildings such as dwelling or apartment houses, and which shall be simple and du-. rable in construction, and whereby ashes or other analogous materials may be sifted and subsequently conducted to aplaoe of storage remote from the location of the ash-receiver with little labor and without the disagreeable creation of dust and dirt attendant upon'the' operation as heretofore practiced. V

In the drawings accompanying and form ing a part of this specification, Figure 1 rep:

resents in plain view, and partially in horizontal section, an ash-chute embodyingthe preferred form of our invention, a portion of the cover of. the ash-receiver. being broken away to show the parts more clearly; Fig. 2 a vertical section on the.sa:me,-.taken ou line a a, Fig. 1, showing the sliding gate as closed, the passage between the ash-receiver or chute andconduit, and Fig. 3,a similar view showing the gate raised and said passage-way open.

Similar characters designate, like parts in all the figures. I v

A represents a conduit or channel, which will preferably be formed within the walls of the building and extends from the basement to the upper floor so as to be acc'essibleto the tenants upon every floor of the buildin Said conduit might, however, be constructed of metal, or other suitable material, and placed in position in any building where such a conduit is not provided in the building when erected. In some cases, it may be desirable to construct the conduit of sheet-metal, and secure it to the outside of .the wall of the building in proper place to be accessible to all the tenants. Itwill therefore be seen that the construction and application of the conduit may vary as circumstances may require.

In the drawings simply a portion of a conduit is shown,with one ash-chute or receiver, designatedby B applied thereto. This ashreceiver is shown as an oblong box having an inclined or sloping bottom 2, a front-wall 3, back-wall 4, and sidewalls 5 and 5', with a rearwardly extended inclined discharging spoutor trough C, the bottom of which is aligned with and preferably a continuation.

of the bottom of the receiver proper. The spout C, forms the discharge opening through which the contents of vthe chute pass to the conduit A. The receiver Bis secured to the conduit in any suitable manner, it being herein shown as provided with projections at its upper end which are embedded in the walls of the conduit, the spout C being extended into a slanting opening in the wall of the conduit.

By reference to the drawings, it will be seen that the-front wall of the receiver extends vertically from the top and terminates at a point remote from the bottom 2 at approximately in a plane with the upper edge of the spout C where it is turned inward to form a sloping ledge 3,, to which is hinged at 6, a cover 7 having a channel 8 formed by flanges upon its inner face to over-lap the upper outer edgesof the. bottom and sides of the receiver, which cover. is'set at an inclination substantially at rightrangles to the bottom 2 of said receiver. Secured to the face of this cover is an eye 9 which is engaged by a hook 10' secured to thefront wall 3 of the receiver when it is desired to secure thedoor in an open position, asshown in Fig.3. Hinged to the top of the receiver, near the backewall thereof, is a cover 11 having a channel 1.2 ::t-ot engage the .Vertical Walls ofsaidreceivergit being similar in construction to the cover "7before de-.

and conduit by elevating or depressing the the gate.

Secured to the upper face of the cover, 11 is hook 15 adapted to engage with the hookshaped end 14 of the gate-operating rod when said rod is in a depressed position, and the door 11 is opened.

In practice, the hook l5 and gate-operating bar with the hook 14 at its upper end will be so arranged relative one to the other, that while the hooks will engage one with the other to hold the cover 11 open when the bar 13 is depressed, it will be impossible to throw the cover 1 1, when the gate-bar 13 is elevated, backward sufficiently far that it will remain open by its own gravitation, as the end of the hook 15 will strike against the body of the bar 13 and tend to throw the cover 11 forward and close the same. This particular construction and arrangement has peculiar advantages over any construction or device known to us, and will be hereinafter more fully explained.

Supported upon cleats or flanged rails 16 and 16' secured to the interior of the receiver at its sides, near the upper end, is a sifter D, which sifter comprises an oblong frame 17 preferably of metal, supported at its sides upon the flanged rails 16 and 16 and having a handle-bar 17 extending through a vertical slot or recess in the front-plate 3 of the receiver, and an open-work basket or body-por- Lion constructed, preferably, of wire, and secured to the frame 17. This basket forms a sifter to receive the coal and ashes, and by means of which the ashes, dirt, &c., may be separated and removed from the coal and allowed to pass into the receiver whence it may be discharged into the conduit and carried off.

By the construction and arrangement of the devices as herein shown and described, it will be observed that every precaution is taken to prevent uncleanliness due to the dust or dirt arising from the ashes, coal, &c., when either depositing the same in the chute through the opening in the front of the chute, or when depositing the same in the sitter, or when sifting the same, or when discharging the accumulated ashes and dirt in the receiver into the conduit to be carried off. To this end, the gate E, the gate-operating rod 13 and cover 11 having the hook 15 thereon to engage with the rod 13, are provided and arranged as described, and constitue important factors in the accomplishment of this result, for the following reasons: lt is absolutely essential, for the perfect prevention of dust rising, to retain the passage-way between the conduit and receiver closed at all times, when the cover 11 is opened, otherwise draft upward through the conduit would tend to displace dirt or dust within the chute and cause it to rise through the opening in the top thereof, (which draft and result might be caused by the opening of a receiver upon the floor above,) and by arranging the gate-operating rod so that the cover 11 cannot be retained open unless the gate is closed, it will be seen that should the gate be elevated, the attention of the person opening the cover would be, at once, attracted to this fact which would enable the gate to be closed before ashes or coal were emptied into the chute.

By the construction and arrangement of the sifter as before described, it enables the coal and ashes to be thoroughly sifted within the ash-receiver when all of the outlets are closed without causing dust and with very little exertion, it simply being necessary to reciprocate the sifter D upon its supporting flanged rails or cleats. A flange 18 upon each side of the spout 0 act as guides and rear bearings for the gate E in its descent.

We do not desire to limit ourselves to the exact construction of the parts of the device shown in the drawings, as mechanical modifications of said parts might be made without departing from our invention.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- 1. The combination with the conduit having an opening in its side-wall, of the ash-receiver having an inclined bottom and connecting the opening in the conduit, the receiving opening 11 the hinged door 11 for closing said opening and having the hook 15 secured thereto, the sliding gate E for closing the opening between the conduit and ash-receiver, and the operating-rod 13 secured to said gate having the book 14 at its opposite end to be engaged by the hook 15 upon the cover 11, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In an ash-chute, the combination with the conduit and receiver, of the cover 11 having a detent hook, and the sliding gate E having an operating-rod 13 in position, when the gate is closed, to engage the cover and hold the same open, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the conduit, the ashreceiver having the discharge opening in communication with said conduit, the cover 11, the sliding gate adapted to close the mouth of the discharge-opening of the receiver and an operating-rod connected with said sliding gate and having a hook-shaped upper end adapted to engage the cover 11 when the sliding gate is in a depressed or closed position and thereby retain the cover in an open position, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

FREDERIK W. STELLIN G. HERMANN F. REETZ.

Witnesses:

FRED. J. DOLE, FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

IIO 

